The Green Bay Mike & Key Club holiday potluck held at the De Pere Community Center
Members of the Appleton High School Amateur Radio Club try out equipment in their radio shack in the school after installing a new 40 meter folded dipole antenna on the industrial arts wing of the school for club use. Members work on Mondays and Wednesdays after school. The club is open to anyone interested in Morse Code or amateur radio. From left are Richard Roth (K9GAD), Gerald Radtke (WN9GON) and John Stefl (WA9FWD). Roger Kerstner is club advisor
Topics: school club, Fox Cities
Held at the Brown County Fairgrounds
Topic: field day
The Green Bay Mike & Key Club holiday potluck / holiday party was held at the Ashwaubenon Community Center
Amateur Radio Operators Of Brown County Compiled by Margaret, WD9EGA for the Green Bay Mike And Key Club, Inc - March 15, 1980 There were approximately 434 ham radio licenses in Brown County, WI on March 1980.
Field Day 1989 - Held at the Brown County Fair Grounds, it was 95 degrees that day.
Topic: field day
The Marinette & Menominee Amateur Radio Club Celebrating 60 Years 1949-2009
Topic: Marinette
Alton R. "Al" Janelle I (Sr.) W9CEA/9APA 1904-9/4/1941 Green Bay's First Ham Alton Janelle Crash Victim - Injuries Prove Fatal To Green Bay Man in Hospital Here Monday Injured in a traffic accident early the morning of September 4, Alton R. Janelle, 37, died at 5 o'clock Monday afternoon in a Green Bay hospital. He had sustained a basal skull fracture, and did not regain consciousness before his death. Coroner Orlen Miller said today tat an inquest will be held into the death when...
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About 25 members of the Neenah-Menasha Amateur Club turned out Saturday for the group's annual "Amateur Radio Field Day," as part of a national test of emergency communications equipment. The club attempted to contact as many other stations as possible within the 24 hours operating with voice and Morse code. Above, Elaine Weinig logs contacts made by Steve Kunstman, while Henry Rowland, below communicates via telegraphy equipment. The club made about 600 contacts.
Topics: field day, Fox Cities
The banquet was held at Woodside and the Ham of the year award was give to Wes W9WES and Dale WB9NRK, as there was a tie.
Green Bay Mike & Key Club newsletter Adopt-A-Highway presentation given by Ken, N9LSX Special Fox Hunt Sep 30, 1995, 1pm meeting at Madison Jr. High School in Appleton, WI.
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Short blurb about the 1961 West De Pere High School Ham Club in conjunction with Abbot Pennings High School
Topic: school club
In one of the exhibition buildings at the Brown County Fairgrounds you can talk with a Callfornian in his own home, or with a person in Greenland. The Green Bay Mike and Key Club is participating in a nationwide contest-exercise for all amateur radio clubs.
Topic: field day
Amateur Radio Answers Call for Communications from Department of Emergency Government
The U.S. invasion of Grenada is unfolding bit by bit in a dark corner of Peter Clausen's Appleton home. Clausen, is hearing first hand the voices of Grenada as they report on the welfare of American civilians living there, via ham radio.
Topic: Fox Cities
Green Bay Ham Radio Repeater Video Tour Shows the 147.270 N.E.W.R.L. Repeater and the Green Bay Mike & Key Club's 147.360
Held at Lily Lake County Park
Topic: field day
Premontre High School, Green Bay Radio Chess Antonio Cruz-Urbie and Ray Kocha of the Chess Club experience an exciting moment in their match. Radio Club: Sitting: Harry W. Williams, (K9WRD); Paul A. Schumacher, (K9TRB); Father Urban, (K9ZEQ); Peter J. Schumacher (KN9VQS); Antonio Cruz-Urbie (XE1BT). Standing: John G. Delwiche, (K9RTC); Dan J. Servais, (WN9AJW); Patrick J. Besanson , (WN9AYG), Leland J. Lanoye, (WN9AOE)
Topic: school club
Green Bay Mike & Key Club newsletter
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September 30 - October 1, 1978 Port Plaza Mall - Amateur Radio Display
L to R: Larry, K9BBU; Wayne, W9JDG; Dick, K9BBT; Dave, K9GBV; and Jim, W9JEF at the mic
Amateur Radio Users Gather For Celebration HAM radio field day in Ashwaubenon (2009) - K9EAM ASHWAUBENON — Thousands of amateur radio operators this weekend are demonstrating their abilities to provide emergency communications in the event of a crisis. The annual nationwide Field Day aims to promote HAM radio and help people understand how to create their own amateur broadcasts. The Green Bay Mike and Key Club organized a demonstration for the public on the use of amateur radio Saturday...
Topic: field day
More than a century of combined experience by two Door County amateur radio operators, George Gabert and Clayton Cardy, was honored recently by the Quarter Century Wireless Association in Port Washington. Gabert, who received his first license in 1923, was cited for 60 years of participation, Cardy for 50 years of operation. There are only about 400 radio amateurs who have been on the air for 60 years in the entire county.
Members of the Mancorad Amateur Radio Club held a rally from Saturday noon until Sunday noon at the Manitowoc County Expo site to test their skills in the case of an emergency. From left, Mark Scheuer, Club President Gene Buesing, Vice President, Larry Steeno and Josh Glaeser try to make contact with other amateur radio operators.
Topics: field day, Manitowoc County
Fox Charlie Charlie The Famous night in the Winter of 1989 where K9RTB is a bit liquored up. As a prank someone changes the 147.120 repeaters courtesy tone to send RTB, and then later FCC. Bob, pretends he's calling "Allegan," the nearest FCC monitoring post. (Note: This was rescued from a reel-to-reel tape recorder, so the morse code is skewed)
Held at Lily Lake County Park - With a visitor from Florida, Dan, AG4IF
Topic: field day
Australian Alan Anderson, seated at microphone, and his Manitowoc host Erv Busse, listen in from other members of the international ham radio group. Anderson, the man behind the distinctly accented voice, is on a five week visit of North America to personally meet the friends he has gotten to know over the last six years through his home transmitter in Brisbane.
Topic: Manitowoc County
Green Bay Mike & Key Club newsletter
Topic: newsletter
Green Bay Mike & Key Club newsletter
Topic: newletter
Because a handful of its residents have coupled an intense interest in their hobby with a realization of emergency needs, Green Bay can be sure of dependable communications with the rest of the world if normal contacts are cut off. The local group is headed by Oliver Davis. The group is banded togther in a unit of the Amateur Radio Emergency Corps, a step-child of the American Radio Relay League. In addition to membership in the national emergency organization, the unit is part of the...
Ham Radio Operators of the Neenah-Menasha Amateur Radio Club participated in a world-wide communications test. Transmitters and receivers were setup at he Wiegand Lumber Company. Talking code at the transmitter are Eric Isakson, left and Dr. R. G. Minarik
Topics: field day, Fox Cities
Local amateur radio operators participated in a North American emergency preparedness event at the Brown County Fairgrounds.
Topic: field day
Calvin Heisiner of Oconto (right), president of the M. and M. Radio Club, receives the club's new charter from the ARRL. The presentation was made at the club's banquet at the Silver Dome by F.R. Eggers of Manitowoc (left), assistant director of ARRL's central division. Looking on are two club officers, Ed Kehoe (second from left), vice president, and Kenneth Emmons, secretary.
Topic: Marinette
Carleton A. Heinritz 1918-2007 Appleton, WI
Topics: qsl card, Fox Cities
Two top amateur radio operators awards have been awarded to avid ham operator Paul Niles. The coveted awards include the WAZ certificate and the number 200 sticker for the DX Century club. The WAZ initals stand for working all zones. Ont the radio operator's map the entire world is divided into 40 zones. These zones cover every country from one pole to the other. The 200th sticker is awarded to any amateur operator who confirmed contact with 200 foreign stations.
Topic: Waupaca
When Tragedy Strikes: Aftermath of Alaskan Earthquake "Ham" Radio Operators Try To Help Randy Schaaf, 1605 Ridge Road, at radio set
Badger Contesters
Topic: newsletter
FCARC Ham & Computer Fest '93 November 7, 1993 Starlite Club Kaukauna, WI Sponsored By: Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club
Topics: Fox Cities, hamfest
Some amateur radio operators are bouncing their signals off the moon these days. And that's just one of the developments in a field that has had its practitioners for many years, as contrasted with the CB boom of the past few years. Citizen's band does have its place, according to Green Bay area "ham" Randy Dyle, but there are big differences between hams and CB users. Dyle is treasurer of the Green Bay Mike and Key Club, a group of ham radio enthusiasts which sponsored an exhibit at...
Danish radio amateur has no trouble finding friends here Jorgen Beiskjaer OZ1CHD an electrical engineer with Semco, a Danish company which produces marine instruments being installed on ships at Bay Ship visits Sturgeon Bay hams. Illustrating the strength of the worldwide fraternity of amateur radio which even extends into communist Russia.
Topic: Door County
Northeastern Wisconsin Radio League May 1989 Newsletter Field Day will be at Wrightstown County Park
Topic: newsletter
Students Have Radio Days: Shawano school's ham station ends worldwide talking tour. The week long special event station WA200BZW at Franklin Middle school was started as a way to commemorate Wisconsin's entry into the union in May 1848.
Topic: school club
Harvey A. Maass 1909-1987 Seymour, WI
Topic: qsl card
Ashwaubenon High School Tech Club Newsletter Next meeting is Halloween dress up meeting HTX-202 DTMF not working Local ham radio pages on the world wide web
Topic: newsletter
Ashwaubenon - Thousands of amateur radio operators this weekend are demonstrating their abilities to provide emergency communications in the event of a crisis. The Green Bay Mike and Key Club organized a demonstration for the public on the use of amateur radio Saturday afternoon at Ashwaubomay Park.
Topic: field day
Mark Heleniak dashes out his signal as Brown County amateur radio operators tested emergency equipment and procedures during their annual field day exercises.
Topic: field day
Amateur radio operators help guide alerts Retired Outagamie County Sheriff's Detective William Drootsan was riding with a friend through the countryside near his Conover summer home last July 30 when dark clouds ushered in a line of severe thunderstorms packing winds later estimated at 100 mph. The pair listened to the ham radio in their vehicle crackle with constant reports from trained weather spotters monitoring the storm's progress and the damage it caused. "When I heard those ham...
Annual Field Day dials in hobby's local enthusiasts. Rich Weyer took a "Ham Cram" course offered by the ManCoRad Radio Club in April. After the extensive one-day course and an exam, he became a licensed amateur radio operator. On Saturday, Weyer was at Silver Creek Park in Manitowoc , participating in Field Day, an annual public demonstration of amateur radio, also called ham radio.
Topics: field day, Manitowoc County
It's the pleasure of meeting new friends which draw Beverly Butler to his ham radio every morning about 7. Butler, 69, was introduced to radio codes and operations at the Army's radio school during World War II. Instead of becoming a radio operator, though, Butler's experience as a photographer landed him a job transmitting Signal Corps radio photos from the Pacific theater. More than 30 years later, he acquired his novice's License from the Federal Communication Commission at the suggestion of...
Two Appleton ham radio operators, one of them a student at Carleton college, spoke with the latter's college president Saturday morning. Not an unusual situation - except Dr. Laurence Gould, Carleton president, is in Antarctica. Ed Douglass, seated, a Carleton sophomore, speaks, while Bart Pollard, an Appleton High school senior looks on.
Topic: Fox Cities
Area amateur radio operators are enthusiastic about the success of a rocket launch a week ago in which they played an integral part. A group of radio "hams" gathered at the Ben Wright home, Appleton, and when a successful orbit was reported, a cry of JOY was sounded. OSCAR-D is the eighth in a series of space satellites built by radio amateurs to be placed in orbit as piggyback payloads on U.S. launch vehicles..
Topic: Fox Cities
Amateur Radio Operator Has Distant Pals Waupaca - If it is possible to be a professional in an amateur field, that would be the status of Paul Niles. Local manager of the Wisconsin Public Service Corp., Niles has been an amateur radio operator for 31 years and is one of the less than 300 operators in the world who have made contacts with some 300 different countries. Two of Waupaca's pioneer amateur radio operators, Dr. A. H. Chandler and Van Boyce, interested Niles in becoming an operator and...
Topic: Waupaca
Elmer O. Eisenman 9BUT 1904-10/10/1995 Sold car batteries Elmer O. Eisenman , 91 formerly of Ravenswood Dr, died Tuesday Oct. 10, 1995. He was born June 29, 1904 in Pine Grove, the sone of the late Fred and Martha (Wegner) Eisenman. He graduated from East High School in 1922 and attended Badger Business College. Elmer married the former Irene Schultz on March 28, 1928 in Los Angeles. In 1926 he and Jules Gaie established one of the largest automotive battery distributors (at...
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During the annual amateur radio operator's field day Saturday, Roger Cannon, above left, Walter Stubbs and Al Herfort watch as Harry Haskins operates the transmitter while contacting other operators in all parts of the country.
Topic: field day
Local group of "ham" radio amateurs installed a repeater station high atop of the WFRV-TV tower at Scray's hill. It will enable the Red Cross Lakeland chapter to utilize more powerful radio communications when working on disaster or emergency operations in the area. Dennis Dal Santo, a member of the Northeastern Wisconsin VHF Radio Amateurs Club, installed the repeater at a height of about 600 feet, with assistance from another member, Tim Selner.
Photos of the Northeastern Wisconsin Radio League repeater, tower and 4 bay array that was located at the Highway 57/54 split in the Town Of Scott. The North East Wisconsin Radio League NEWRL was formed in the onset of the no code technician license boom in 1989. The group built a linked repeater system connecting Algoma, Green Bay and Waubeno, which was useful in collecting weather spotting reports. The club dissolved in 2000. The remaining transformed into more of a "Skywarn"...
New city hall doesn't include space for amateur radio club Ham radio operators will need another home when Manitowoc builds a new city hall. They have been meeting for many years monthly in an otherwise unused portion of the basement at the current city call at 817 Franklin St. Fred Nuenfeldt, president of the Mancorad Amateur Club, would like to see the club continue because it can provide some valuable services. Once a year ham operators set up shop aboard the submarine U.S.S. Cobia to...
Topic: Manitowoc County
Neenah-Menasha Amateur Radio club joined other "hams" throughout the nation in a 24 hour field day and civil defense communications test in Jefferson park. At upper left contacting other radio amateurs were Bill Lewis, K9AJF; Robert Towns, W9NQW; and Tom Williams, K9DAC, from left, using key and voice equipment. Above Carl Stiller, left and Karl Forsgren made minor repairs in the field on their equipment. Gassing the generator engine were Richard Prunuske, K9BNM, left, and John...
Topics: field day, Fox Cities
Joseph "Joe" A. Taylor W9OMT/W9JO 1937-2002 Taylor, Joseph A. - Ret. Chief Engineer KSTP TV 1937-2002 Age 65, of St. Paul, on December 12, 2002. Joseph worked for 20 yrs. as Chief Engineer at WBAY TV, Green Bay, and 10 yrs. as Chief Engineer for KSTP TV. He attended the University of Wisconsin Extension in Green Bay and the University of Illinois. He served as an educational specialist in the Air Force, served as a Red Cross disaster team volunteer. As Joe would say, 'Let's get the...
Topics: sk, obituary
Amateur radio operators bring USS Cobia's signal back to life MANCORAD Amateur Radio Club member Mike Martch uses a ham radio on the USS Cobia during the "Submarines on the Air" event Saturday at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc. Amateur radio operators talked to each other from 40 submarine museums and memorial sites to pay honor to the "Silent Service" and the 52 submarines lost in World War II.
Topic: Manitowoc County
Members of the Mancorad Radio Club of Manitowoc this weekend are taking part in the largest non-commercial emergency preparedness test. The test began Saturday afternoon at the Manitowoc Expo site and will last 24 hours. Members of the club with its president, Larry Steeno, will be on hand to show visitors the equipment and explain the public service role the club plays in a community. Charles Scholten, right, demonstrated equipment to Manitowoc's Mayor Anthony Dufek.
Topics: field day, Manitowoc County
Robert A. Thorne 1937 - 2003 Neenah, WI
Topics: qsl card, Fox Cities
Green Bay Mike & Key Club newsletter Cathy, KD9WO and Dennis, KB9ABO have stared in a made-for-cable documentary entitled "New World of Amateur Radio", this 1/2 hour vidoe can been seen on Cablevision channel 4 thoughout October. The Learning Tree BBS operated by Reid Hardy new has a Ham section, 337-9374 Fallfest 1990, Oct 6 at the Green Bay Community Center, 1673 Dousman St.
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Green Bay Mike & Key Club newsletter Guest exchange student from Germany, Rose DK4ZY/W9 Tom Mahoney of WFRV-TV to speak to the club on the subject of severe weather reporting at the next meeting, May 13th.
Topic: newsletter
Green Bay Mike & Key Club newsletter There were 2 guest speakers at the March meeting from Brown County Emergency Government and one from the Red Cross to give Y2k briefings.
Topic: newsletter
Clayton Cardy of Sturgeon Bay travels the world via Ham Radio Before there was the Internet there was ham radio, a technology that hardly is obsolete.
Topic: Door County
As of Feb. 14, Americans with a penchant for ham radio communications can get their amateur radio license without having to learn that combination of dits and dahs that make up the Morse code. "It certainly opens up amateur radio to a lot of people who think they couldn't learn the code." Myron Jackson, Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club president, said of the new codeless license. Jackson, who teaches classes to prospective licensees, said the code is a major obstacle for many. "...
Appleton Ham Radio Day, proclaimed by Mayor Clarence Mitchell for today, will be marked with demonstrations of the "ham's" skills during a field day exercise at the North end of Plamann Park by members of the Outagamie County Amateur Radio Club. The "day" and demonstration are observances of the 50th anniversary of the first licensing of an amateur radio operator in 1914. Above, from the left, Maurice Mead, Gary Gariott and Vern Hoffman tug guy lines to raise a...
Topics: field day, Fox Cities
Badger Contesters
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Robert "Bob" J. Hamacheck 1917-2009 Russell E. Hamacheck 1919-2010 Manitowoc, WI
Topics: qsl card, Manitowoc County
Manitowoc County Radio Club President Rich Weyer, right, and club board member Steve Weinert connect with other ham radio operators June 27 from Lakeshore Technical College's emergency operations center. The local club spent the weekend participating in the American Radio Relay League's annual field day, which is a competition and exercise in emergency preparedness.
Topics: field day, Manitowoc County
"Whatever happened to Bill Juhre? Haven't see him around much lately." This coffee-counter conversation prompted a look at "What's happened" to the creator of "The Orbits," a family comic strip that was at home in the Press Gazette and 92 others newspapers for almost eight years. Slowed down by a series of heart attacks, Bill Juhre is by no means retired. Juhre still teaches two art classes each week, and was curator of art at the Neville Public Museum for...
Get That Message Through Members of the VHF Radio Club keep in touch with other amateur radio units in a simulated emergency test, carried out across the nation recently. Mike Pickett is at the mike. Others shown at the portable set-up at Lost Dauphin park are Harry Staszak, left, Carlton Schaff, and Lillian Cruz-Urbie. "Come In, Washington" Amateur radio hams associated with the Mike & Key Club set up their portable equipment at the Brown County Fairgrounds at De Pere for...
Topic: field day
On Aug. 18 Chris Galassie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Galassie, passed an examination in Chicago for his extra amateur radio license making him probably the youngest such licensed operator in the state. Chris is 14 years old.
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